Product Manager

Korn Ferry Group; Jersey City (NJ); On-site; USD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Korn Ferry is partnering with a client in Jersey City, NJ, to locate a Product Manager for a contract-to-hire opportunity. The role centers on consolidating fragmented event systems into a unified platform and data lake to streamline planning, costs, attendees, and locations across global locations.

The ideal candidate has senior-level experience with event operations, strong stakeholder influence, and a hands-on approach to backlog grooming, production support, and roadmap ownership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 7+ years of work experience
• Senior level operator for events/fintech domain (preferred)
• Strong collaboration across teams and ability to influence senior stakeholders
• Execution-focused: storytelling, backlog grooming, production support, roadmap ownership

Responsibilities

• Centralize fragmented event management into one modern system with a single data lake.
• Capture event data (costs, attendees, funding, locations) and streamline end-to-end experiences for planners/coordinators.
• Integrate amenity systems, catering, AV, Zoom, client/conference centers, HR platforms and related tools.

Skills

Stakeholder management

Backlog grooming

Roadmap ownership

Cross-functional collaboration

AI tooling experience

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

We have partnered with our client in their search for a Product Manager contract to potential hire opportunity in Jersey City, NJ.

Responsibilities

• IEMS is a non-scalable, siloed, legacy registration tool handling ~85% of global internal events (all 23 corporate locations, all countries/regions; ~50k events/year, up to 200k sessions, 2.2M registration requests).
• Goal: Centralize fragmented event management (in-house tools, third parties, SurveyMonkey, Outlook, etc.) into one modern system with a single data lake. Capture event data (costs, attendees, funding, locations), eliminate breaks/reconciliations that lag 6+ months, and create seamless end-to-end experiences for event planners/coordinators.
• Integrate amenity systems, catering, AV, Zoom, client/conference centers, HR platforms, and related tools via agentic layers and MCP-style models so users stay in one flow.

Skills Required

• Senior level operator who has consolidated services/systems for a specific persona (event planners, coordinators, execution staff) and can drive prioritization and hard MVP trade-offs.
• Strong collaboration across teams they don't own; comfortable presenting to and influencing senior stakeholders.
• Execution-focused (not pure program manager): story writing, backlog grooming, production support, roadmap ownership, and accountability of tech and stakeholders. Ability to take direction and run independently.
• Comfortable with high-touch, high-demand work (occasional longer hours). Not afraid of details or asking "why" / pushing problem statements and global solutions.
• AI tooling experience is a plus (they're already using GitHub + Claude for UX/UI prototyping and replacing Figma-style work). Events background helpful but not required. Architectural/product design background useful for systems and experience design.

Education & Work Experience

• Bachelor's Degree
• 7+ years of work experience

Title

Product Manager

Location

Jersey City, NJ

Client Industry

FinTech

Compensation

$65-80/hr

About Korn Ferry

Korn Ferry unleashes potential in people, teams, and organizations. We work with our clients to design optimal organization structures, roles, and responsibilities. We help them hire the right people and advise them on how to reward and motivate their workforce while developing professionals as they navigate and advance their careers. To learn more, please visit Korn Ferry at www.Kornferry.com